When Hank was practicing on his own, he was able to recite all his lines for the play without any errors. However, when he stepped on the stage, in front of an audience, his mind went blank and he couldn't remember any of his lines. The impairment in Hank's performance when he was in front of an audience is consistent with the concept of:
a. social facilitation
b. social interference
c. social loafing
d. a self-fulfilling prophecy
B
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a. counseling psychologist b. clinical psychologist c. school psychologist d. research psychologist
The tables of the standard normal distribution contain only positive values of z. This is because
a. the distribution is symmetric. b. z can take on only positive values. c. we aren't interested in negative values of z. d. probabilities can never be negative.
Fran's 4-year-old son awoke at 9:00 p.m., crying and in a panic, but did not remember having a dream. It is likely that Fran's son experienced:
A) sleep paralysis. B) a night terror. C) narcolepsy. D) sleep apnea.
A(n) ________ reinforcer refers to an unpleasant stimulus whose removal leads to an increase in the probability that a preceding response will be repeated in the future.
A. negative B. unconditioned C. secondary D. neutral